So last thursday the lecture was on sructuralism, which is pretty much straight forward. Its to see structure, shapes according to what we automaticly think of. It is how we create and interperate. By focusin on the "opposites" we as humans can only define what something is by knowing what isnt. These are known as "binay opposites".
-Jacques derrida is a man who developed the technique of post-structuraism, also known as deconstruction. This is whre binary oppositions come in. examples of binary opposition are:
good- evil
light-dark
sky-land
old-young
male-female.
All these example help show how we question opposition. However we know what is old and young. however some are no so straight forwards and these are called "zone of anomaly."
These are the one that dont fit in the catagory so fluid. This is simply because we see some on a scale in a way and can only notice what it is from how far away from the catagory it is. for example:
human-non human. - there are films where you have vampires and zombies. Are they closer towards human or non human. Its a question where everyone has their own view on. I personally believe it could be closer to human but there is a process to get to human stage. Therefor it stays in "zone of anomaly".
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